It aims to helps editors to inspect and go through a large number of revisions easily and in lesser time than with the current interface. It shows the user how the edits in a page evolved visually. It will enable the user to view the edits happening on the page in an animated fashion. The current revision compare page has only one dimension , the line number .The lines are presented side by side showing the older version on the left side and the newer version on the right.The proposed idea will show the edits happening right in its position in the document . It will have a playback like functionality, which will let you see the changes happening in the document like a video being played out.It is a visual complement to the textual diffs that are currently shown.

Eg, If there are five edits on a page from date A to date B, the user will see the edits happening on the page , some text getting modified , text getting added , deleted etc in their browser like a video playback.

Hi, where will it get the data from? Will you pre-compute diffs for a whole article so it's a seamless, movie-like experience or will you let the diffs be generated on the fly when one clicks on one of the "next" arrows? In the latter case it would not be possible to have a movie or slider, right? Also: Do you plan to provide something like a lookup of who wrote what words?--91.89.152.178 13:53, 31 March 2013 (UTC)

I will spend my time developing the tool. It will be a standalone script/gadget. I would like to take it forward and integrate it into mediawiki , but that is currently out of scope. By the end of the project any user should be able to visually go through the edits without any pain and without having to spend time staring at long columns of texts stating the changes line by line.

A good understanding of the implemented Wikimedia infrastructure and its architecture .

A good idea of the mediawiki api and its limits so as not to strain it and impair the total performance of the system.

The plan is to adopt a hybrid approach as mentioned in the talk page , the parsing of the simpler diff wikitext is done on the client side and the more complex wikitext will be parsed on the server side using the mediawiki api.

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I'm pretty new to Wikipedia and one thing that struck me immediately is the tremendous amount of editing done to many articles. I was frustrated though that it isn't easy to visualise this. A gadget like this would make it easier.21:45, 17 April 2013 (UTC)--Bair175 (talk) 21:47, 17 April 2013 (UTC)

I am doing courses in Wikipedia and I think this could be quite useful to show how an article develops. Would be nice if it was developed so that input from bots could be discarded, only showing "human" edits. Best regards, Ulflarsen (talk) 19:26, 17 September 2013 (UTC)

I just took the mockup for a test drive and it is really terrific. What a wonderful idea, and watching the edits really does give some interesting insights. Thanks for this work. Jane023 (talk) 09:48, 20 October 2013 (UTC)

This is very enlightening, allowing you to see the amount of work and maintenance that goes to an article. I think all edits, also by bots, are important to visualize, as it gives us insight into discussions about justification of deletions or bot-created entities. Great! --Susannaanas (talk) 08:42, 17 December 2013 (UTC)

A great tool, very useful, makes writing long articles fun. Keep up the great work. ----Rsrikanth05 (talk) 17:10, 16 February 2014 (UTC)

A very useful tool, especially for researchers. One can have a glimpse of how articles evolve overtime, which would particularly be of interest to digital historians and academicians. For editors, this tool would make it possible to spot specific edits quickly. The interface is cool and easily navigable. Regards Netha Hussain (talk) 06:31, 30 March 2014 (UTC)

"We then shortly present two tools we recently developed and published in this regard in Section 3: Contropedia and whoVIS; and we introduce whoCOLOR, a userscript for highlighting provenance and controversity of words in Wikipedia articles. Further we briefly describe the above mentioned older legacy tools and one Wikipedia community solution called “Wikireplay”, which we believe could also provide a useful approach to our goal. (...)

Wikireplay (or “re Edit”, http://cosmiclattes.github.io/wikireplay/player.html , by Wikipedia user Jeph Paul) is a community-built web application that allows the user to select a Wikipedia article and a starting revision. It then displays the look of the HTML view of the article at the given time and sequentially visualizes all single additions and deletions that took place in a video-like animation."